by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 17, 2015 | Pins & Needles
No. 27: Matthew MercierQ. Do you think humans are naturally drawn, in some way, to the ugly, as you once were to the witch in The Wizard of Oz? Why might that be, considering the connotation that ugly = evil?Absolutely, whether we admit it or not. But it’s queasy...
by Fairy Tale Review | Mar 3, 2015 | Pins & Needles
No. 26: Abigail ZimmerQ. I enjoyed the list aspects in “At the Closing of the World,” bonus points for coral and that beluga whale. “Hiatus” also makes use of the list aesthetic (alder, birch, oak, etc.). What’s your advice on crafting a successful list poem?Keep...
by Fairy Tale Review | Feb 17, 2015 | Pins & Needles
No. 24: Carrie MessengerQ. “I couldn’t remember before the Dust, but my sister could. She had two years on me. She was four when the Dust came.” Do you see anything in our lives functioning like Dust in this story, changing the world so deeply that it’s...
by Fairy Tale Review | Feb 10, 2015 | Pins & Needles
No. 23: Grace BauerQ. The craft aficionado in me adores your poem’s stanza construction, particularly the transition between stanzas two and three. What, in your opinion, makes the perfect stanza?Thanks for the kind words about “The Rhetoric of Oz” and its structure....
by Fairy Tale Review | Jan 20, 2015 | Pins & Needles
No. 21: Carrie BennettQ. The withholding of the journey itself is interesting, in that the story is what comes before the journey. What compelled you to this structure, to examining the anxieties and the logistics?At the time I wrote Ghost Plants, I had been writing...
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